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BACK IN THE DAY

Back In The Day

A Christmas Wish Granted for Junior Johnson

How a legendary NASCAR driver landed a presidential pardon.

by Jeremy Markovich
Back In The Day

André The Giant: North Carolinian

The legendary wrestler once billed as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" made his home on a ranch in the small town of Ellerbe.

by Jeremy Markovich
Back In The Day

How LabCorp Got Its Start in North Carolina

How a Fortune 500 company rose from humble beginnings in Burlington.

by Jeremy Markovich
Back In The Day

The Time when North Carolina’s Governor Pardoned Slow Poke the Possum

Gov. Bob Scott once vowed that he "shall not be thwarted in my appetite for opossum." Except one time, when he was.

by Jeremy Markovich
Back In The Day

The Sky is Her Limit

The first woman to earn an engineering degree from NC State, Katharine Stinson rose to an amazing career as a flight engineer.

by Jeremy Markovich
Back In The Day

The Insurance Company That Powered Durham’s Black Wall Street

North Carolina Mutual was founded by a formerly enslaved man. By serving a community that had been ignored, it helped its hometown thrive.

by Jeremy Markovich
Back In The Day

The Masters and the Man from Morganton

In 1954, Billy Joe Patton, an amateur golfer from North Carolina, qualified for the sport's most storied tournament. He almost won.

by Jeremy Markovich
Columns

The Legend of Ocracoke’s Old Quork

In Ocracoke lore, a hermit-like fisherman named Old Quork supposedly went fishing on March 16 and never returned. Sailors, be warned.

by Jeremy Markovich
Columns

If You Give a Kid a Goat Cart

A discovery of archival photographs begged the question: Did everyone have a goat cart in the 1930s?

by Jeremy Markovich
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